Dumbarton Oaks Conference
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The Dumbarton Oaks Conference (or Washington Conversations on International Peace and Security Organization) was an international conference at which the United Nations was formulated and negotiated.

It was held beginning on from 21 August to 7 October 1944 in Dumbarton Oaks, a mansion in Washington, DC, United States, and was attended by representatives of the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the Republic of China. It was chaired by U.S. Undersecretary of State Edward Reilly Stettinius.^[1]

The conference's discussions on the make-up of the UN included which states would be invited to be members, the formation of the United Nations Security Council, and the right of veto that would be given to the Security Council's permanent members.

The conference was followed up by the Yalta Conference (February 1945) and, later, by the United Nations Conference on International Organization (the "San Francisco Conference", April-June 1945), at which the Security Council veto powers were established and the text of the UN Charter finalized.

Dumbarton Oaks mansion

See also

• List of World War II conferences

References

1. ^ Stettinius, Edward Reilly, Jr. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07

Further Reading

• Hilderbrand, Robert C. (1990). Dumbarton Oaks: The Origins of the United Nations and the Search for Postwar Security. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-1894-1. 

External links

• Dumbarton Oaks and Yalta (un.org)
• Proposals for the establishment of a general international organization

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